Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Truly Scrumptious and Bee Crafty Challenges


I made this card following the sketch on the 'Truly Scrumptious Challenge' The image is a new digi download from Bee Crafty who have just started their 1st competition and are offering this free download + another one if you add their banner to your blog :-)
I used a paper download from Funky Fairy's Papercrafts, some gemstones peachy card from cordinations and a little swiss dotted blue coredinations. I coloured the image with copics and paperpieced her dress, well, I had to do that cos I coloured it with prismapencils and made a right mess, need better card !!! ( that's my excuse and am stickin to it !! ) :-) I 3D'd the bag after glittering.The flowers were punched and a doodlebug brad added to centres. The ribbon is papermania.

Thanks for looking, your comments are appreciated so please leave me one :-)
Lorraine x x

Funky Fairy's Challenge 11#





The theme this week on the Funky Fairy Challenge is 'Dare to be Square'. Well when I heard this I was thinking 'outside the box' and square pegs round holes :-)
I have had this paper mache box in my drawer for 3 years so thought it was about time I did something with it. I go to night school to do mosaic so I had the idea to do a faux mosaic effect on this. I painted the box grey as I love to use grey grouting on the real thing ! I then printed some 'Cherish' papers in 3 colours from Funky Fairy Papercrafts, cut these into 2cm squares and stuck them on the top and around the base. The swirly scrolls were cut on my cricut. I then sprayed everything with a clear mat varnish to seal it all :-)
I used red cardstock for the base card and didn't want to cover too much of that up so I used a little of the the clock design paper from the same 'Cherish' set and a swirly scroll. I coloured barefoot Tilda with copics and dabbed a lovely shimmery light blue sky and green at the bottom but it doesn't show on the photo, in real life it looks lovely, honest !! I used a nestie to cut the image circle and cut the larger green circle using a fiskars circle cutter to make it slightly larger, it matched the clocks better than a scalloped one I thought !!
The sentiment was printed on the comp and stuck in a SU hardware thing!

Thanks for looking, I hope you join in the Funky Fairy Challenge this week, there is a prize of a download set from Funky Fairy Papercrafts on offer so what're you waiting for :-)

There are some lovely free paper downloads on the Blog of Inspiration
Also Shaz has added 2 more fabulous sets to the shop, Gorjuss Ginghams and Just Hanging Around both of them are absolutely gorgeous, if you click on the link it will take you straight to them :-)

I also have some blog candy to celebrate 10,000 hits ( almost !) and my good luck in all things crafty :-) so please enter, I haven't given you too many hoops to jump through ha ha !!

Lorraine x x x